Chauncey walton



' improvements.v

cigar UNITED .STATES PATENT` GEEICE.

rroN, DISTRICT or' COLUMBIA] CIGAR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,1 19, dated June 6, 1F65.

To @ZZ whoml it may concern.'-

Be it known that I, CHAUNCEY WALTON, of NVashington city, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Manufacturing Cigars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference beingv had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and in'which- Figure l is a view of a cigar embracing my Fig. 2 is longitudinal central section through the same. Fig. 3 represents the wire around which thecigar is to be formed. Fig. 4 is a view of the mouth-piece detached. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal central section through the same, and Figs. 6 and 7 are views of themouth-piece containingthe sponge and capable of. bei-ng 'used-with rcigars made in the usual manner.

Cigars as heretofore manufactured are sometimes wrapped so hard that they will not smoke freely, and are liable to burn irregularly, while all the smoke generated from the part` ignited passes through the body of the perforation from end, to' end with ajmouthpiece on one end containing sponge oran equivalent absorbent between the cigar Y. and the mouth of the smoker.

To enable othersA skilled in the'art to make and use my invention, 'Iwill proceed-to describe its construction and operation.

I preparel a sufiicient number vof mouth-` pieces such as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 for the days work of one hand; These mouth-pieces may be made of paper, papier-mache, or any other material; vbut those of paper are the cheapest. To make them, the paper, of suitable strength,is dampened and cemented with gum.,or varnishon one side, and rolled on a conical former of the length and shape desired. rlhey are then pressed in a mold to and renders that portion near thev varnished on the outside, and colored to suit the fancy. The small end or a central opening can be made by inserting a wire of the proper size into the apex of the former, and when withdrawn a opening, as at a, Fig. 5, will be left. It is obvious that these mouth-pieces may be embossed or grooved, as at I), Figs. 4. and 5,-in the lformer or otherwise, and stamped with .the name of the manufacturer or his trademark. The paper mouth pieces, when 4removed from` the former and dried ,are ready to be united to the cigars.

A set .of tapered wires like Fig. 3, in number suiiicient for the dayswork, or more, are prepared of any suitable material in the usual The fillings Vandv Wrappers 'of tobacco ,being ready, the manufacturer makes the cigar by placing the filling evenly around alwire and wrapping it thereon, ans-if making the cigar'in the usual manner, save that the wrapper does not run out to the end, but is left until a piece of sponge, d, Figs. Zand 5, of the mouth-pieces, which is then placed over the end of the filling, as in Fig. 2, and pressed down until the sponge rests on the tobacco, when the wrapper is wound over the base of the vmouth-piece, when it may be fastened with a little gum or by strings c c, Fig. l. The wire may no w be withdrawn,- the cigar out smooth at the end and of the proper length, and laid away to dry, finished, as in Fig. l.,

tion like Fig. 2.

- tobacco it -may be desirable to let the wires r`emoving them; but it is obvious that, should the central perforation become bstructed,the insertion of; a Vwire will wise obvious that, bythe use of the wire for perforating, cigars of the -ordinary construction may be rendered capable of smoking with freedom, even when wrapped so tight that they could not otherwise be smoked; and it is also evident that by the use of my sponged sive odor` or smoker.

.Y What I claun as my invention, and desire make them compact and smooth, and may be must be perforated;

suitable -mode of --t-he manu-facture ofsueh articles.'

is inserted in one' and will presenta central longitudinal sec- Under some conditions of moisture in the main until the cigars are nearly dry before rereopen it. It is likemouth-pieces the ordinary vci gars of commerce 'Y would be prevented from imparting an offennicotine tothe mouth of the to secure/.by Letters lPatent of the United States, is--' 1. The new article of manufacture herein described, made in the manner and for the purposes substantially as set forth.

2. A 1ongitudinaHy-perforated cigar, combined with a sponged mouth-piece, as and for the purposesset forth;

In testimony urhereof Ihave hereunto subscribed mygxamef Y JOHN S. HoLIT'N'GfsHEAD, T. HAY. 

